General

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/flash.html

This website contains video with text and music that is a great testament to why we study history.


http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/daybyday/daybyday_menu.cfm

A great online tool to enhance the teaching and research of history.
Recommended for middle school and secondary level students.

Geography

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/index.html

This website houses the National Geographic Society's interactive museum of geography journeys.
There are many lessons, activities and other various tools available for both teachers and students.
Recommended specifically for middle school and secondary level students.

http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/world.htm

This World Atlas Online resource represents a selection of maps to use with your interactive whiteboard.
Recommended for use at all grade levels.

Economics

Trade game http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/economics/
Interdependence Web http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/em558/popupActivity.html

American History

Digital Stories about Am. History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/digital_stories.cfm

An overview of American History (video)
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachinghistory/newmovie1.htm

Could you have passed the 8th grade in 1895?
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/quizzes/8thgrade_test.cfm

Could you have graduated from High School in 1885?
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/quizzes/highschool_test.cfm

1999 History School Quiz- Overview of history
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/quizzes/hist_test.cfm

Slavery Quiz
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/quizzes/slav_test.cfm

Links to Games about Historical Topics
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/games/games.cfm

America Becomes a World Power
http://www.quia.com/rr/132165.html

US Presidents
http://www.quia.com/jq/87756.html

American Revolution- Places
http://www.quia.com/jg/66325.html

American Revolution- The British are Coming (Timed Questions)
http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/data/quiz.shtml

American Revolution- Bill of Rights
http://www.quia.com/jg/396265.html

Digital Background- A site that offers lesson plans/activities/etc. all in US History. The site is primarily analyzing visual documents and discussing the significance. Excellent links are provided.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/digblack/

Great Depression

Great Depression and New Deal (tons of resources) http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/revision/usadepression.shtml
Using photographs from this time
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm

More photographs
http://newdeal.feri.org/classrm/partr1.htm

Photo Essay
http://newdeal.feri.org/classrm/partr1.htm

Photograph Questions
http://newdeal.feri.org/classrm/partr1.htm

Magpipe Sings the Great Depression
http://newdeal.feri.org/classrm/partr1.htm

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm

Stock Market Game
http://www.econ.org/smg/index.html

Map of the Market
http://www.econ.org/smg/index.html

Assessments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/usa/

This site has great text information for further research. Topics range from the 1920s to question of whether or not the New Deal was successful.
Great Depression

A comprehensive site with text information on key individuals, photographers, and New Deal legislation. Not much interactivity, but a great additional resource.
Roosevelt and the New Deal

Site that offers four lesson plans that focus on the American way of life and not as much of the policies. The lessons are currently not written for a whiteboard but could easily be transferred for easy viewing. Great resources are provided.
The Great Depression and the Arts

Several links to sites that offer information on African-Americans during this time, women, students, labor, and many more. A great site for additional information.
Great Depression Features (New Deal Network)

PowerPoint Presentation with over 100 slides of information.
FDR and the NEW DEAL

Government

http://training.scottcounty.net/PowerPoint%20Files/Hardin%20Jeopardy/constitution8.ppt#256,1,Slide 1

GREAT Jeopardy Game on branches of government/ saved to computer
Homepage- http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/howto/smartboard/lessons.htm

Electoral College Quia
http://www.quia.com/mc/495025.html

Another Jeopardy Game- http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/Download/constitution8.ppt

Road to the White House Game
http://it.coe.uga.edu/~lrieber/pptgames/whouse.ppt

Map of the US and voting trends of democrat or republican. You can change the party vote and see how that can impact the voting trends.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/politics101/politics101_ecmap.html

http://it.coe.uga.edu/~lrieber/pptgames/baseball.ppt#256,1,Georgia Travels
Great interactive Baseball game of government questions and a few baseball trivia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvsADU2OOWM
Comical video on the government’s power in the US

War in Iraq- Current Events and/or Government

Political Map of Iraq
http://downloads.ncss.org/lessons/IraqMap.pdf

Detailed Map of Iraq
http://downloads.ncss.org/lessons/IraqRegion.pdf

Iraq Region
http://downloads.ncss.org/lessons/IraqRegionSimp.pdf

United Nations CyberSchoolBus (live chat sessions/contests/real life happenings!)
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/

Unresolved Problems of the World- links
http://www.rusd.k12.ca.us/4teachers/history/history10b.html#unresolved_probs

The famous question is, “When will I ever have to know this?” Helping students see the relevance is a vital and key step in teaching history. Therefore, when teaching about history, why not relate the past to current events. This section will provide activities/information on relating WWII to current events.

Committee on Conscience | Alert | Darfur | Overview

Voices on Genocide- an interview with the co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action group. Can be played on RealPlayer, ITunes, etc.
VOICES ON GENOCIDE PREVENTION

Videos on Darfur- National Geographic site offers a series of videos for detailed information on what is currently happening in Sudan and what has in the past. The video screen is small and the video shows advertisements prior to showing the video but the content is very useful and informative.
Special Video Series: Sudan, Country in Crisis


Nobel Peace Prize – 20th Century Wars http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/peace/

• American conflicts listed with an additional site to go into

http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html

Interactive Game with videos, text, quizzes, etc.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/

Industrial Revolution

Great links!
http://www.rusd.k12.ca.us/4teachers/history/history10d.html#indust_rev

Panama Canal

Site that offers a tour of the canal, timeline, footage, and a quiz.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/panamacanal/index.html#

Live Camera shots, real pictures of the canal, history, etc.
http://www.learnnc.org/bestweb/pancanal

Medieval History Games

Review
http://www.quia.com/jg/396265.html

Asian Middle Ages Chronology
http://www.quia.com/jg/396265.html

Asian Middle Ages People, Places, and Things
http://www.quia.com/jg/396265.html

Destroy the Castle (math link)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/destroy.html

Ancient History Games

Gladiator- Dressed to Kill (have 60 seconds to dress a gladiator for battle.. will you choose the correct items?)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_gladiator.shtml

Housesteads Fort- Virtual tour (may need to download VRML but BBC has step-by-step instructions on how to do this)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_vt_housesteads.shtml

Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii in 79AD (good webquest and/or homework activity) Scavenger Hunt
http://www.quia.com/servlets/quia.activities.common.ActivityPlayer?AP_rand=326386572&AP_activityType=13&AP_urlId=5641&AP_continuePlay=true&id=5641

Seven wonders of the Ancient World (4 different games)
http://www.quia.com/jg/115463.html

Pyramid Builder (very detailed- great for middle school) Keeps you interested
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml

Death in Rome- Site that you use your detective skills to unravel the events behind a mysterious death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_deathrome.shtml

Civil War

Site offers lots of images of life during the Civil War
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm

Images, timeline, and a movie
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html


Interactive plantation home that allows the viewers to navigate through. Excellent!
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/whats_new.htm

Songs and Poetry
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/

Detailed Interactive Site on Civil War
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web06/segment1.html

WWI

Animated Map- The Western Front 1914-1918
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/launch_ani_western_front.shtml

Animated Map- Battle of Somme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/launch_ani_somme_map.shtml

Great links
http://www.rusd.k12.ca.us/4teachers/history/history10f.html#worldwar1

WWI Quia Quiz (games)
http://www.quia.com/jg/413542.html

WWII

Between the Wars Vocabulary
http://www.quia.com/jfc/117884.html

Animated Map- The Burma Campaign
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_burma_campaign.shtml


Animated Map- The Fall of France
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_fall_france_campaign.shtml

Great links
http://www.rusd.k12.ca.us/4teachers/history/history10h.html#worldwar2
This link connects you to a very detailed lesson plan on this subject. Reproducible sheets are provided for you as well as additional resources and links.
Fighting For An Ideal America

Additional posters that could be enlarged for the whiteboard are provided on this site.
Produce_For_Victory

This site is an interactive template that allows your class to work as a team to choose a poster, decide on the purpose, figure out who is targeted, and discuss their overall impression of the poster.
Interactive Poster

Another interactive analysis of war time posters is included in this link. The difference is this template focuses on the Uncle Sam.. I want You poster.
I want YOU!

Holocaust

A very sensitive unit of study for many teachers and students. It is imperative that it is discussed and taught with great care and respect. Provided for you are links of highly reputable sites.

A Holocaust timeline that supplies the viewer with images and descriptions in chronological order.
Timeline

Mapping the Holocaust in 1933 is provided on this site. This is an interactive map that needs FlashPlayer in order to view the interactivity. You are able to pause the video map
Mapping the Holocaust

The Chamber of the Holocaust- a virtual field trip to a museum that is dedicated to those who perished and those who survived the Holocaust. Viewings are memorials that were designed throughout Europe.
Chamber- Holocaust

Survivors- this site has links to hear stories from survivors during the Holocaust. You need RealPlayer to hear the stories.
The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy - The Survivors

Audio Gallery- The immediacy of hearing someone's voice is a direct and personal experience. Some of the audio recordings tell of incidents related in the texts of the Survivors Stories. Other recordings expand on the stories with additional anecdotes, and with songs and with prayers. A verbatim transcription is provided to help the listener understand the speaker and a translation is provided when a foreign language is spoken
Holocaust Survivors: Audio Gallery

Concentration Camps

Concentration Camps- a map shows the concentration cams throughout Europe
Concentration Camps

A virtual tour of Auschwitz through either QuickTime or Flash. (two different tours)
Virtual Tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

Photography

Using images to teach and discuss history has a strong impact on all of us. The following sites have photographs that could be used to have open discussions and/or lessons.

A site with tons of links to photographs of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Survivors: Photo Gallery

Holocaust survivors share their stories as well as their personal photographs. The site gives background information on the survivor as well as letters, stories, and pictures.
Holocaust Survivors: Survivor Stories

• Please see current events section for sites on the crisis in Darfur for a correlation of history and current events.

Cold War

Excellent revision notes in collapsible format - revise key points and click to reveal essential notes
http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war_revision.htm

Links all in relation to the end of WWII/Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/

At the bottom of the site are several interactive revision diagrams. Each heading offers suggested answers
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/revision/superpower.shtml

Halfway down the page you can find an audible speech made by JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://www.historywiz.com/coldwar.htm

This CNN Perspectives series explores the Cold War experience. Included are interactive maps, rare video footage, declassified documents, biographies, picture galleries, timelines, interactive activities, a search function, book excerpts, an educator's guide and more. (Demands a 4.0 browser or higher)
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

Site has 18 connections to maps, information, etc on topics all related to the Cold War. After most sections is a multiple choice test with immediate feedback.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/index.shtml

Interactive map of prewar (1939), turning point (1943) and Cold War (1947)
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/maps/

This is a site that takes you to a map of Europe. The great thing about it is that you can click on a certain portion of the map and magnify that section
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/europe_ref_2000.jpg

The World Gazetteer provides a comprehensive set of population data and related statistics
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/

Hosted by CNN, 4 games are offered. 2 are for key players during this time, a crossword puzzle, and the last is for terminology
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/games/

Duck Shot Game- multiple choice quiz
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/duckshoot/coldwar.htm

Another multiple choice quiz
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/penaltyshootout/coldwar.htm

Another game
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/fling/coldwar/

Word search with vocabulary related to the Cold War
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/quizzes/wordsearch/cold_wordsearch.html

“Give Me a Ten Dollar Bill”
http://thefilter.blogs.com/thefilter/2004/06/ten_dollars_tha.html

Interpretation of the letter
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1184419

Official letter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:FCR_to_FDR_letter_complete.jpg

Match-Up quizzes available. Main sections include:
Ipact of War, Superpower relations (related to the Cold War)
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/quizzes/matchup/

Extensive revision lesson providing revision diagrams to complete together with revision quizzes
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/coldwar/index.htm

Russia (Czars)

Mapping of Russia 1914-1917- Students can fill in the correct bubbles with the appropriate information
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/russia/russia19141917.shtml

U2 Song lyrics for Sunday Bloody Sunday (hyperlink)
Have students listen to the song and see the lyrics on the whiteboard. You could purchase a cd for the computer or you could download the song from sites such as- Wal-Mart Music Downloads
Follow-up song with a writing activity.
U2 | Sunday Bloody Sunday lyrics
Sunday Bloody Sunday (song) - Info

Alexander I- Cloze activity that is interactive with your board. Have students come to the board to fill in the missing words.
Alexander I

The following site has several political cartoons, all from this time period, that your students can verbally or through writing analyze. A great introduction is also provided on how to analyze political cartoons.
Political Cartoons

Online Quiz- Russia and Its Neighbors- (geography)
Russia (Geography) quiz

Timeline of the Romanovs (matching)
Time line of the Romanovs

The Crimean War Interactive Quiz
The Crimean War

The following sites are interactive games that quiz your class on Russia/Czars.
The Russian Revolution - Hoop Shoot

Russia 1918 - 1941 - Penalty Shootout

Interdisciplinary Connections

Science-** Hemophilia (Nicholas II)
Hemophilia: The Royal Disease- this site has a lot of text regarding hemophilia but halfway through is a family tree of a Duke and Princess and how the disease is genetically passed. Great tie with genetics! Comes with follow-up questions although answers are not provided unless you become a member.

A detailed lesson plan (workshop) of ‘Exploring St. Petersburg and the History of St. Petersburg” http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/pdf/VanDusen%20COMPLETE%20lessons.pdf

Excellent Comprehensive Lesson Plan from an overview of Russia until World War I. The lesson plan format is very easy to read and follow and everything is simply laid out for you
http://www.ssdec.nsw.edu.au/history/romanovs/lesson_list.html

Russia/Soviet Union (1917-1954)
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/revision/russia.shtml